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Saturday May 25th, 2013

Friday May 24th, 2013

Undercover Narco Befriends, then Busts, Autistic Teenager posted 05/24/2013, 4:43 AM (PoliceMisconduct.net)
[Category: Tyranny/Police State]

From ABCNews.com:

“Our son was a new kid in August, and this undercover cop befriended him,” Snodgrass said. On the second day of school, Snodgrass said, Daniel asked the boy to buy drugs. “He asked my son if he could find marijuana for $20,” Snodgrass said. ”Three weeks later my son was able to bring back a half joint he received from a homeless guy.”

Later, Snodgrass said, “he asked to purchase my son’s prescription medication, but our son refused.”

It took the 17-year-old three weeks to procure a half joint of marijuana, according to court documents filed later in Riverside County juvenile court. After he was pressed again by the police officer, the student retrieved another joint for $20, from another homeless man, the documents said.

“During that time, he received more than 60 text messages from this undercover officer,” Snodgrass said. “Our son has a real problem reading social cues and social inferences because of his various disabilities. It would’ve been hard for him to figure to out that he was talking to an undercover officer.”

Snodgrass said his son had been diagnosed with autism, bipolar disorder, Tourette’s syndrome and various anxiety disorders.

Temecula police arrested Snodgrass’ son, along with 21 other students, on Dec. 11. Snodgrass told ABC News that his son was interrogated, booked and held for two days without having contact with his parents.

911 Dispatcher Tells Woman About To Be Sexually Assaulted There Are No Cops To Help Her Due To Budget Cuts posted 05/24/2013, 4:43 AM (CBS Seattle)
[Category: Tyranny/Police State]
From CBS Seattle:

JOSEPHINE COUNTY, Ore. (CBS Seattle) — An Oregon woman was told by a 911 dispatcher that authorities wouldn’t be able be able to help her as her ex-boyfriend broke into her place because of budget cuts.

Oregon Public Radio reports that an unidentified woman called 911 durin... (more)

Released Video From Silva Beating Shows His Last Moments; Video Of Actual Beating Still Missing posted 05/24/2013, 4:43 AM (Techdirt)
[Category: Tyranny/Police State]
A pair of the cell phone recordings of the David Silva beating have been released by attorney Daniel Rodriguez. 23ABC News received the videos first, both of which capture the final moments of Silva's life. Unfortunately for those seeking more clarity as to the actions of the nine responding offi... (more)

And Then They Came For Me: The Black Bagging of Adam Kokesh posted 05/24/2013, 4:43 AM (Jeff Berwick)
[Category: Tyranny/Police State]
The outright harassment, intimidation and black bagging of political opponents in the US has reached new levels in recent weeks.

The extortion arm of the US government, the IRS, has admitted to targetting people with certain political beliefs for aggressive shakedowns. And good friend of TDV, Adam Kokesh, who was planning a peaceful armed march in support of the Second Amendment of the Constitution on Washington DC on July 4th was kidnapped in broad daylight on May 18th in Philad... (more)

The Julian Dawkins Case posted 05/24/2013, 4:43 AM (PoliceMisconduct.net)
[Category: Tyranny/Police State]
From the Washington Post:

According to police, Dawkins, 22, a shuttle driver for the “PBS NewsHour,” was fatally shot by an off-duty Arlington County sheriff’s deputy. Family members say they are still struggling to understand why.

“He was a working guy. Didn’t bother nobody,” said Cur... (more)

Man Wrongly Imprisoned for 20 Years May Sue posted 05/24/2013, 4:43 AM (Courthouse News Service)
[Category: Tyranny/Police State]
CHICAGO (CN) - An innocent man imprisoned for 20 years for a sexual assault he did not commit may sue the forensics experts who falsely testified that his semen and teeth marks were linked to the crime, a federal judge ruled.... (more)

Thursday May 23rd, 2013

Video: City Changes Parking Signs, Tickets Cars That Were Parked Legally posted 05/23/2013, 4:36 AM (InformationLiberation)
[Category: Tyranny/Police State]
From CBS New York:

Nobody likes getting parking ticket. But it’s especially infuriating when the rules are changed right before your eyes.

[...]It happened on West 15th Street at Seventh Avenue, where bike racks now stand. But on Saturday morning, as surveillance video shows, cars were parked there and were legal. The tape shows a cit... (more)

So It's Come To This: Seven High School Students Arrested For Throwing... Water Balloons posted 05/23/2013, 4:36 AM (Techdirt)
[Category: Tyranny/Police State]
The weather's (mostly) hot. School's almost out. And what better way to celebrate summer being almost here than being arrested and charged with a misdemeanor for throwing water balloons.

Hail academia, forever teaching our youth that anything and everything will be punished to the fullest extent of the law, even childhood hijinks our parents woul... (more)

'I really thought I was going to die' posted 05/23/2013, 4:36 AM (PoliceMisconduct.net)
[Category: Tyranny/Police State]
From the Austin American-Statesman:

Driving in the early morning hours to his job at a metal shop in Buda, Miguel Montanez at first thought the approaching lights were a school bus or a tow truck.

But Montanez says it was a Hays County SWAT truck that rammed his car head-on. As they collided, another police vehicle pinned him from behind, he says.
... (more)

Obama Admits to Killing Four Americans with Drones posted 05/23/2013, 4:36 AM (Activist Post)
[Category: Tyranny/Police State]
Up until now the Obama Administration has been coy about their policy to kill Americans abroad using drones.

Today, Attorney General Eric Holder confirmed that this administration has killed four Americans with drone strikes in Yemen and Pakistan, and admitted one was killed deliberately.... (more)

'Don't interact, don't talk, they are not humans' – Gitmo guard's basic orders posted 05/23/2013, 4:36 AM (RT)
[Category: Tyranny/Police State]
One of the methods used to extract information from Muslim inmates in Guantanamo was to apply sexual interrogation techniques, Terry Holdbrooks, former guard at the camp has told RT.

Such a degradation methods, the former US soldier said, were used on innocent men. Holdbrooks, who wrote a book about GITMO prisoners, claims that it is the inmates' religious perseverance in the fa... (more)

Wednesday May 22nd, 2013

Newly Released Video Shows Idaho Cop Kill Man Who Surrendered With Hands Above Head posted 05/22/2013, 5:04 AM (InformationLiberation)
[Category: Tyranny/Police State]

Nez Perce Tribal Police officer Robert S. Wall, 31, shot and killed Jeffrey A. Flinn, 46, in 2011 after pursuing him in a chase. This newly released video shows Flinn exited his car and placed his hands above his head in surrender, at which point Wall shot and killed him. Wall was rewarded with a paid vacation, and despite facing trial, Magistrate Judge Stephen Calhoun dismissed all charges against h... (more)

Durham Cop Threatens to Beat Citizen & Plant Cocaine on Him posted 05/22/2013, 5:02 AM (Daily Paul)
[Category: Tyranny/Police State]

Just like the mall cop, this officer at the end of a curse filled tirade against a non violent individual tells him he better show him respect. Does anyone really think this guy deserves respect after treating another human being this way and threatening the use of planting drugs to beat and enslave him? No matter what this guys previous crimes were, if he has served his time previously and is not in t... (more)

Police State: Liberty Activist Illegally Searched and Arrested After Kokesh Hearing posted 05/22/2013, 5:02 AM (Activist Post)
[Category: Tyranny/Police State]
"Your megaphone might be a weapon," says the arresting officer to liberty activist and former Marine Kyle Prouty when he asked why he was being detained.

Five members of The Panic Hour were followed into the City Hall rail station in Center City Philadelphia after attending an arraignment hearing for Adam Kokesh and Nikki Allen Poe who were kidnapped from a peaceful marijuana rally on 5/18/13.

While quietly waiting for a train, Kyle Prouty was illegally searched and... (more)

Video: Control Freak Rentacop Goes Off on Trespassers posted 05/22/2013, 5:01 AM (Infowars)
[Category: Tyranny/Police State]

All it takes is a blue uniform and an inflated sense of authority for a mall rentacop to go off on a few trespassing sightseers and end up in a brawl.

From wtrf.com:

The mall security guard at the center of a parking lot brawl with another woman has been fired.... (more)

California Cop Panics Over Cell Phone Camera, Thinking it Could be a Gun posted 05/22/2013, 5:01 AM (PINAC)
[Category: Tyranny/Police State]

A California cop who was being video recorded by a smartphone said she was in fear for her life because the phone could have possibly been a gun, marking at least the fourth time this year a cop in this country has uttered those nonsensical words.

After all, if Detective Shannon Todd of the Newark Police Gang Unit was really so stupid to believe that the phone could have been a gun, then... (more)

This Week's Corrupt Cops Stories posted 05/22/2013, 5:01 AM (StoptheDrugWar.org)
[Category: Tyranny/Police State]
New York City seems indifferent to the costs imposed on it by rogue narcs, a Florida deputy gets popped for growing weed, a US Virgin Islands environmental cop gets popped for cocaine trafficking, and a rogue California narc heads for prison. Let's get to it:

In New York City, news broke on Sunday that a Brooklyn NYPD narcotics team had cost the city ... (more)

Daytona attorney challenges traffic ticket for "impolitely" honking car horn posted 05/22/2013, 5:00 AM (News-JournalOnline.com)
[Category: Tyranny/Police State]
In a twist on the typical traffic stop, a DeLand police officer told a driver it was his “lucky day” and offered him a warning rather than a citation. But the driver demanded the traffic fine.

And when a traffic hearing was held weeks later, the officer didn't show. Now, the driver is fighting to drag the cop into court to explain why he shouldn't be held in contempt for skipping the hearing.... (more)

Tuesday May 21st, 2013

Homeland Security Raids Mall Kiosks, Says They "Could" Be Financing Terrorists posted 05/21/2013, 4:17 AM (InformationLiberation)
[Category: Tyranny/Police State]
In the new Amerika, everything the state doesn't look favorably upon is considered terrorism.

Via WIVB.com:

AMHERST, N.Y. (WIVB) - Federal agents swept through two shopping malls Monday, seizing fake merchandise and shutting down stores.

The Department of Homeland Security spearheaded the investigation that targeted mostly kiosks in the Walden Galleria and Boul... (more)

The IRS War on Medical Marijuana Providers posted 05/21/2013, 4:16 AM (StoptheDrugWar.org)
[Category: Tyranny/Police State]

Dispensaries providing marijuana to doctor-approved patients operate in a number of states, but they are under assault by the federal government. SWAT-style raids by the DEA and finger-wagging press conferences by grim-faced federal prosecutors may garner greater attention, but the assault on medical marijuana providers extends to other branches of the government as well, and moves by the Internal Revenue Service (IRS) to eliminate dispensaries' ability to take standard business deduction are an... (more)

Denver Cops Arrest Italian Shotgun Manufacturer as a Terrorist posted 05/21/2013, 4:14 AM (Prison Planet)
[Category: Tyranny/Police State]
Daniele Perazzi was arrested on Saturday after a cab driver turned him into police as a terrorist. The Perazzi Shotguns executive was taken into custody by Adams County Deputies outside of the Denver Merchandise Mart where the annual Colorado Gun Collectors Show was held over the weekend. The show is a noted venue for the finest collectors firearms in the world.
... (more)

Deputies Watch Woman Die in Court posted 05/21/2013, 4:14 AM (Courthouse News Service)
[Category: Tyranny/Police State]
MONTGOMERY, Ala. (CN) - A woman died on a courthouse floor because Alabama sheriff's deputies refused to give her her medicine - after arresting her for an old traffic ticket, the woman's daughter claims in court.

Ayunna Johnae London sued St. Clair County Sheriff Terry Surles, jail administrators Austin Nash and Terry Marcrum, Southern Healthcare Partners, and its employee Jennifer Eisel, in Federal Court.

London claims her mother, Dwana Voncia London-Ric... (more)

Monday May 20th, 2013

Adam Kokesh Charged With "Assaulting a Federal Officer" posted 05/20/2013, 8:52 PM (Infowars)
[Category: Tyranny/Police State]
Incarcerated political activist Adam Kokesh, arrested by police for exercising his First Amendment rights during a pro-marijuana legalization protest on Saturday, has been charged with “assaulting a federal police officer,” despite the fact that the video of the incident shows him not resisting arrest.

Kokesh was kidnapped by Philadelphia police as he gave a keynote speech on Saturday. The former Marine was not smoking or in possession of any drugs when he was arrested.
... (more)

Cop Caught Lying Gets Acquitted Of Assault posted 05/20/2013, 1:05 AM (InformationLiberation)
[Category: Tyranny/Police State]

Remember the story of Prince George's County, Maryland police officer Corporal Donald Taylor, a 13-year-veteran, who claimed that after catching up to an aggressive youth who swung at him and began to flee, the youth reached for his gun, at which point he fired his gun at the youth in self defense? The story went mega-viral because the cop'... (more)

NC Cops Arrest Man Citing Nonexistent Warrant, Hold Him At Gunpoint, Rob His Home posted 05/20/2013, 1:04 AM (InformationLiberation)
[Category: Tyranny/Police State]
Two North Carolina police officers allegedly cited a nonexistent warrant to falsely arrest a man, then proceeded to hold him at gunpoint while the girlfriend of one of the officers robbed his home. Last week I highlighted a report on a Kentucky cop who used a fake warrant to rob a man's home, despite this story being strikingly similar, these are two different incidents.
... (more)

Hofstra Student Andrea Rebello Shot in Head by Cop While Being Used as Human Shield During Home Invasion posted 05/20/2013, 1:04 AM (New York Post)
[Category: Tyranny/Police State]

The Hofstra University student killed during a home invasion robbery was the victim of friendly fire from a veteran cop who unleashed a barrage of bullets when the armed intruder pointed a gun at him, Nassau County police announced tonight.

Andrea Rebello was accidentally shot in the head while career criminal Dalton Smith had her in a headlock and used her as a human shield while trying to escape out the back door, Det. Lt. John Azzata said.

The unidentified cop fi... (more)

The cop shot eight times, the robber never shot once, he ALLEGEDLY aimed his gun at the officer which lead to the hail of bullets. - Chris

Former Hero Officer Charged With Raping Women posted 05/20/2013, 1:04 AM (NBC Philadelphia)
[Category: Tyranny/Police State]

A former Philadelphia police officer once hailed as a hero and given a seat next to the first lady at a speech by President Obama has been arrested and charged with raping two women and other crimes.

A source tells NBC10 former officer Richard DeCoatsworth, 27, met one of the women two weeks ago and forced her into prostitution at a local hotel. Between Thursday and Friday, DeCoatsworth went to the woman's home in the Fishtown-Kensington area where there was a part... (more)

These are your heroes, America. - Chris

Jailed for Remaining Silent? posted 05/20/2013, 12:54 AM (PoliceMisconduct.net)
[Category: Tyranny/Police State]
From the New York Times:

“I anticipate that the government will seek an order from the court holding Jerry in civil contempt,” said the lawyer, Susan V. Tipograph, adding that her client had refused to testify as “a matter of principle” and because “he has no knowledge whatsoever” about the bombing or who caused it….

... (more)

LAPD Says Its Rehabilitation is Complete posted 05/20/2013, 12:54 AM (PoliceMisconduct.net)
[Category: Tyranny/Police State]
From the Los Angeles Times:

The federal judge who oversaw a dramatic, forced transformation of the Los Angeles Police Department has freed the department from the final vestiges of federal oversight...

The dismissal of the so-called consent decree, wh... (more)

Cop Stole Jewelry From Home He Was Dispatched To Check On posted 05/20/2013, 12:54 AM (Chicago Tribune)
[Category: Tyranny/Police State]
A former Northbrook police officer has been sentenced to two year probation after he agreed to plead guilty to charges that he stole jewelry from a home he’d been dispatched to check on.

Enrique Guzman, 34, resigned from his position as a Northbrook officer shortly after he was charged in late January with felony theft and official misconduct. On Tuesday, Guzman agreed to plead guilty to one count of official misconduct, and in exchange for his guilty plea prosecutors dropped the ... (more)

CA Police Chase of Pot Car Ends in Fatal Crash posted 05/20/2013, 12:53 AM (StoptheDrugWar.org)
[Category: Tyranny/Police State]
A Nevada man died Monday afternoon after his marijuana-laden car crashed during a high speed police pursuit on Interstate 80 in the Sierra Nevada Mountains. The as yet unnamed man becomes the 13th person to die in US domestic drug law enforcement operations so far this year.

According to KCRA TV, the California Highway Patrol began pursuing a BMW near Big Bend, and the chase lasted 20 minutes at speeds ... (more)

Reporter files federal lawsuit against city, police posted 05/20/2013, 12:53 AM (The State Journal-Register)
[Category: Tyranny/Police State]
A local newspaper reporter has filed a federal lawsuit alleging mistreatment by more than a dozen Springfield police officers over the last three years.

Calvin Christian III alleges that “malicious arrests and issuance of tickets were committed in retaliation ... for filing a lawsuit (in 2010) seeking access to internal affair(s) files of Springfield police officers who have been accused of misconduct.”... (more)

Sunday May 19th, 2013

Adam Kokesh Arrested At 'Philly Smoke Down,' Charged With 'Resisting' posted 05/19/2013, 4:49 AM (InformationLiberation)
[Category: Tyranny/Police State]

From Adam's Facebook page:

"Adam is locked up in a federal jail... he will go infront of a judge monday... he is being charged with resisting arrest... that us all I know" - Lucas

"Adam has been arrested and is in jail in Philly... I can personally testify that he hadn't even smoked yet... everyone please phone bomb the p... (more)

Thursday May 16th, 2013

Ky. Cop Robbed Man's Home Under Guise Of 'Executing Search Warrant' posted 05/16/2013, 1:53 AM (InformationLiberation)
[Category: Tyranny/Police State]
A Kentucky police officer staked out a suspected Oxycodone seller's home, then allegedly robbed him for personal profit under the guise of executing a search warrant.

Via WSAZ:

ASHLAND, Ky. (WSAZ) -- A former Ashland Police officer has pleaded guilty to federal drug and gun charges.

32-year-old Melvin “JR” Scho... (more)

This Week's Corrupt Cops Stories posted 05/16/2013, 1:53 AM (StoptheDrugWar.org)
[Category: Tyranny/Police State]
If it weren't for crooked cops in the Land of Lincoln, this space would be blank this week. Instead, we have an Illinois corrupt cops twofer. Let's get to it:

In Caseyville, Illinois, the Caseyville police chief was arrested last Wednesday on charges he kept a seized drug vehicle for his own use. Chief JD Roth faces two felony counts of official misconduct... (more)

Tuesday May 14th, 2013

Cotati, California Cops Enter Disabled Vet's Home, Taze Him in Front Of His Family posted 05/14/2013, 9:24 PM (InformationLiberation)
[Category: Tyranny/Police State]

Via TheRetrosoldier on YouTube:

These officers do not believe in the Constitution or the rights it protects...

The Backstory:

Police are called out to an apartment for a noise compliant by the neighbors. The three occupants inside non-aggressively exercise their fourth amendment right, refusing the police entry as they demand at gun point to let them ins... (more)

Video Shows Dunn, NC Police Officer Grab Citizen's Phone for Filming posted 05/14/2013, 9:24 PM (InformationLiberation)
[Category: Tyranny/Police State]

Apparently, the altercation sent the videographer to the emergency room, now he says he's being stonewalled in his attempt to press charges against the officer. Of course, he has every right to film the officer and the cop has no right to stop him from filming.

From dansol72 on YouTube:

Police brutality Dunn,NC cop assaulting citizen. officer chris a. autry assaults c... (more)

Leniency for a Uniformed Sexual Predator posted 05/14/2013, 9:18 PM (Will Grigg)
[Category: Tyranny/Police State]

In November 2010, 17-year-old Utah resident Tamsen Reid was stopped by former Box Elder County, Utah, Sheriff’s Deputy Scott Womack. She and her two friends were told to get out of the car, stand barefoot in the snow, and submit to an invasive search. Womack told them to lift their shirts and expose their breasts so he could search for tattoos and body piercings.

Reid was singled out fo... (more)

East Bay Cops Shoot, Kill Fleeing Drug Suspect posted 05/14/2013, 9:18 PM (StoptheDrugWar.org)
[Category: Tyranny/Police State]

An Antioch, California man under surveillance for a drug warrant was shot and killed by police as he fled after the vehicle in which he was a passenger struck a police vehicle. Charles Burns, 21, becomes the 12th person to die in US domestic drug law enforcement operations so far this year.

According to the San Francisco Chronicle, citing police sources, Co... (more)

Florida Quietly Shortened Yellow Light Standards & Lengths, Resulting in More Red Light Camera Tickets for You posted 05/14/2013, 9:17 PM (WTSP)
[Category: Tyranny/Police State]
TAMPA BAY, Florida -- A subtle, but significant tweak to Florida's rules regarding traffic signals has allowed local cities and counties to shorten yellow light intervals, resulting in millions of dollars in additional red light camera fines.

The 10 News Investigators discovered the Florida Department of Transportation (FDOT) quietly changed the state's policy on yellow intervals in 2011, reducing the minimum below federal recommendations. The rule change was followed by engineers... (more)

Not only does it cost more tickets, it can cost people's lives due to the panic it creates.

US Marine captain faces court-martial over urination video posted 05/14/2013, 9:16 PM (U.S. News)
[Category: Tyranny/Police State]
More than a year after video footage of U.S. Marine snipers purportedly urinating on the corpses of Taliban fighters in Afghanistan surfaced on YouTube, setting off a storm of controversy in the Middle East, the officer in charge of that platoon will be court-martialed for his alleged misconduct, military officials announced.... (more)

Monday May 13th, 2013

Police Follow Up Beating A 'Possibly Intoxicated' Man To Death By Seizing Witnesses' Cell Phones posted 05/13/2013, 7:41 PM (Techdirt)
[Category: Tyranny/Police State]

How many law enforcement officers does it take to subdue one intoxicated man? In Bakersfield, CA, it takes nine: seven sheriff's deputies, two CHP officers and a police dog. It also appears that being publicly intoxicated and resisting arrest in Bakersfield is punishable by immediate death in... (more)

Florida Man Flees Seatbelt Stop on Foot, Cop Runs Him Over and Kills Him posted 05/13/2013, 7:40 PM (Reason)
[Category: Tyranny/Police State]
Shortly after 12:30 a.m. this morning a Volusia County Sheriffs deputy saw Marlon Brown driving without a seatbelt, and attempted to pull him over. When Brown kept driving, the deputy gave up pursuit while reporting a fleeing vehicle. Almost immediately, reports the Daytona Beach News-Journal, officers with the DeLand Police Department (the county and city share a dispatch system) said they'd sp... (more)

The Persecution of Rita Hutchens posted 05/13/2013, 7:40 PM (William Norman Grigg)
[Category: Tyranny/Police State]

[Pictured: Midnight Knock - Bonner County Sheriff's Deputies invade the home of Rita Hutchens.]

Sandpoint, Idaho resident Rita Hutchens is an opinionated 57-year-old quilt artist whose work has earned her international notoriety. Given that Hutchens is also an outspoken proponent of constitutionalist views, it’s possible that some people have taken issue with her political opinions.

Hutchens has never harmed or thre... (more)

Minnesota City Settles After Cop Uses Mace On Deaf Motorist posted 05/13/2013, 7:40 PM (TheNewspaper)
[Category: Tyranny/Police State]
A police officer who lashed out at a deaf driver with whom he had difficulty communicating cost St. Paul, Minnesota $93,450 on Wednesday. The city council approved a settlement with Douglas D. Bahl, who had sued over a traffic stop that took place on Friday, November 17, 2006. Bahl is a high school teacher, but he can only express his thoughts fully in American Sign Language. ... (more)

Brady v. Maryland -- 50 Year Anniversary posted 05/13/2013, 7:39 PM (PoliceMisconduct.net)
[Category: Tyranny/Police State]
Today marks the 50th anniversary of one of the most important criminal justice rulings of the Supreme Court. On May 13, 1963 the Supreme Court issued its landmark decision in the case of Brady v. Maryland. The case stands for the proposition that the government has a legal obligation to disclose exculpatory evide... (more)

Farmer Faces Over 2 Years Jail, $10K Fines for Feeding Community posted 05/13/2013, 7:39 PM (Activist Post)
[Category: Tyranny/Police State]
Things are heating up in Baraboo, Wisconsin as a long awaited food rights trial approaches.... (more)

Saudi Man Arrested At Detroit Airport For Owning Pressure Cooker posted 05/13/2013, 7:39 PM (Zero Hedge)
[Category: Tyranny/Police State]
Meet the new "WMD" whose merest ownership is sufficient to get you arrested. That, and having an Arabic sounding name of course.... (more)

Sunday May 12th, 2013

Math Fail: Cop Threatens Charges After Student Blows .018, Says It's 'Double' Limit of .08 posted 05/12/2013, 8:10 PM (InformationLiberation)
[Category: Tyranny/Police State]

After a student blows a .018 on a breathalyzer, an LAPD officer tells the student he blew double the legal limit of .08.

The student, who is a physics major, tells the cop .018 is not double .08, .16 is double .08.

"Not the way the machine reads it," the cop responds.

"Of course that's how it reads it," the student retorts.

"Hey you know ... (more)

Saturday May 11th, 2013

Minnesota Cops Mace & Taser High School Student posted 05/11/2013, 5:03 AM (InformationLiberation)
[Category: Tyranny/Police State]

In his quest to gain compliance from a high school student, a Minnesota cop felt it proper to mace a student in the face. As the cop moves in to attempt to take the wincing student down, the student shoves the cop to the ground, a second cop responds by shooting the student with a taser, seemingly shooting him in his face or upper torso. After pumping 50,000 volts of electricity into the student, the... (more)

Friday May 10th, 2013

Cops Tells Woman In Her Own Home: ID Yourself Or You're Under Arrest posted 05/10/2013, 12:56 PM (InformationLiberation)
[Category: Tyranny/Police State]
Texas cops ordered a woman to ID herself at her own door, then entered her home without a warrant because she failed to ID herself. While police are defending the officers' actions, a legal expert says no such legal obligation exists.

Via KHOU:

HARRIS COUNTY -- A woman recently arrested by deputies with the Harris County Precinct 1 Constable’s Office has filed a f... (more)

NYPD Sergeant Says 'Guilty Until Proven Innocent' Is Just The Price We Pay For A 'Free Society' posted 05/10/2013, 12:56 PM (Techdirt)
[Category: Tyranny/Police State]
We've been dealing with the New York police department lately, thanks to the mayor and the police chief using the recent Boston bombing as... (more)

This Week's Corrupt Cops Stories posted 05/10/2013, 12:56 PM (StoptheDrugWar.org)
[Category: Tyranny/Police State]
Something is still rotten along Utah's Wasatch Front, a DC cop gets popped for money-laundering, a Detroit-area cop pleads to running protection for traffickers, and a South Texas cop heads for prison for shipping guns to Mexico. Let's get to it:

In West Valley City, Utah, prosecutors announced Friday they will drop 26 more cases in which the West Valley Police Neighborh... (more)

Brazilian police helicopter sprays suspected drug baron's car with bullets during chase posted 05/10/2013, 12:56 PM (YouTube)
[Category: Tyranny/Police State]

A shocking video of Rio de Janeiro police in a helicopter firing on a moving car in a populous slum has sparked a probe. Footage emerged of the high-octane chase a year after it happened, raising concerns over the excessive use of police force.

Flashback: Welcome to America: Texas Police Sniper Guns Down Immigrants From Helicopter

Why Cops Bust Down Doors of Medical Pot Growers, But Ignore Men Who Keep Naked Girls on Leashes posted 05/10/2013, 12:55 PM (Alternet)
[Category: Tyranny/Police State]
Earlier this year, men wearing black ski masks whipped out their guns and raided the home of 62-year-old Cathy Jordan, a medical marijuana patient and activist in Florida. They seized 23 of her plants, two of which were mature enough to be used for her medicine. Police officers with the Manatee County Sheriff's Department, the team of armed men, made no arrests, but later charged Jordan and her ... (more)

Police: Officer fired after kicking man in head posted 05/10/2013, 12:55 PM (KCCI Home)
[Category: Tyranny/Police State]
DES MOINES, Iowa —Des Moines police said an officer has been fired after they said he kicked a man in the head, knocking out some of his front teeth.... (more)

Commerce City Police officer Robert Price pleads not guilty in shooting death of Chloe the dog posted 05/10/2013, 12:55 PM (7NEWS)
[Category: Tyranny/Police State]
ADAMS COUNTY, Colo. - A Commerce City police officer pleaded not guilty on Monday to a charge of aggravated cruelty to animals in the shooting death of a dog last year.

Chloe was a pit bull mix who got loose from a dog sitter on Nov. 24. Police responded after a 911 caller reported an aggressive pit bull loose in the neighborhood.

Officers said they spent 20 minutes trying to find a person responsible for the dog before deciding the dog needed to be caught and take... (more)

Bar fight involving biker cops baffles sheriff posted 05/10/2013, 12:55 PM (Associated Press)
[Category: Tyranny/Police State]
PHOENIX (AP) — Whiskey Row in the Arizona mountain town of Prescott has seen its share of bar fights, biker gangs and rowdies.

But the bar fights aren't supposed to involve a biker gang made up of police officers carrying brass knuckles and knives. The fallout from such a brawl in December has led to the retirements of a police chief and two senior sheriff's officials and recommendations of felony charges against the former chief for his alleged role in trying to cover it up.... (more)

Victim struck by OPD officer thinks officer hit him on purpose posted 05/10/2013, 12:55 PM (WFTV)
[Category: Tyranny/Police State]
ORLANDO, Fla. — Channel 9 has learned a man who was struck by an Orlando police officer's cruiser spoke with Internal Affairs about the incident.

Tetris Nunn said he believes Officer Michael Fiortentino-Tyburski hit him on purpose, saying he made eye contact with the officer as the patrol car came around the corner.

Nunn said he expected Fiortentino-Tyburski to hit the brakes, but that didn't happen and Nunn was struck.
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Diabetic High School Girl Beaten by Police Officer and Arrested -- For Falling Asleep in Class posted 05/10/2013, 12:55 PM (Alternet)
[Category: Tyranny/Police State]
A student who was arrested and beaten for falling asleep at school is now suing an Alabama city, its police department and some school employees for civil rights violation, battery and negligent supervision and hiring. The Courthouse News Service reports that after the diabetic student fell asleep while in a room reserved for "in school suspensions," a school police officer slammed her face into a cabinet and then arrested her. T... (more)

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